Lúcia Moniz

Acting

Lúcia Moniz

Born

1976-09-09 (50)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz is a Portuguese singer and actress. Moniz represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and has released four music albums to date. She has also acted in several television shows, in theatre, and in films, most prominently Love Actually.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

Fatima poster
7.2

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

Fatima

2020

Artificial Justice poster
6.1

In the near future, the Government aims to replace judges with Artificial Intelligence software, pledging to effectively automate and depoliticize the justice system. Carmen Costa, a distinguished judge, has been invited to assess this new procedure. However, when the software’s creator is found dead, she realizes her life is in danger and that she will have to fight the powerful interests that are at play in the highest echelons of the State.

Artificial Justice

2024

Listen poster
7.1

In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their children. The film portrays the tireless battle of these immigrant parents against the law to keep their family together.

Listen

2020

Next Door: Fear poster
NR

The story of a little girl who went to live with her uncles after seeing her mother being murdered by her boyfriend

Next Door: Fear

2021

Terra Vil poster
10.0

In a community recently shaken by a local tragedy, 12-year-old João and his alcoholic father make a living from fishing. However, the effects of climate change on the business, the ghosts of their past and the father's increasingly erratic behavior could lead to their separation. It is in the next-door neighbors that João meets an unlikely family that could be his only hope for a different future.

Terra Vil

2026

Shadow poster
4.5

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive.

Shadow

2021

Wings poster
NR

It is inspired by the true story of the girls and women of a Ukrainian family forced to find rescue from the war. Although... War can never truly be escaped.

Wings

2026

As Feras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

As Feras

2022

Amadeo poster
6.6

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?

Amadeo

2023

The Portuguese poster
7.3

In a time preceding the Carnation Revolution, we meet two men: one young, one old. One is fleeing the country, and the other helps him escape through Trás-os-Montes. While they make “the leap,” they speak about their lives and their troubles… This is an ode to those who fought for Freedom, and to these fifty springs that have passed. Throughout 13 performed songs, we travel across the country, hand in hand with several Portuguese people who tells us their stories through music, until we get back to this young man who runs away and returns to Lisbon, shortly after the Revolution, to reunite with his loved ones and live in freedom.

The Portuguese

2025

Armários Vazios poster
7.0

When her husband dies, Dora Rosário, a woman trapped in the dark years of the Estado Novo, begins to live only for her daughter Lisa and for the memory of her deceased husband, who accompanies her daily. However, when she discovers that her husband was not who she thought he was, Dora questions her entire past and ventures out in search of a new life. But she will soon discover that mourning will not be as easy as she wants to believe.

Armários Vazios

2022

2010s · 7 titles

2000s · 4 titles

Love Actually poster
7.1

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Love Actually

2003

The Italian Writer poster
NR

In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name "Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years ago. Lisbon, 2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei, who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan Order in Lisbon's Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a legendary mirror, "The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi", that was said to have allowed St Francis to see the next morning. On the day of his departure, Joseph, at the train station, literally bumps into Giulia, a beautiful and irreverent Italian writer with whom he establishes an immediate chemistry. Giulia tells Joseph she came to Lisbon to try to find a mysterious Portuguese singer who her father had a relationship with in Lisbon before he left to fight for the Portuguese in their colonial war.

The Italian Writer

2007

Second Life poster
3.9

Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life.

Second Life

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Portugal Séc. XXI: As Cores Do Som

2003

Series credits

Alta Definição poster
7.2

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Alta Definição

2009

Heart of Gold poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Heart of Gold

2015

Water Mirror poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Water Mirror

2017

Vingança poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vingança

2007

Olhos nos Olhos poster
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

Olhos nos Olhos

2008

Saber Amar poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Saber Amar

2003

Doida por Ti poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doida por Ti

2012

Welcome to Beirais poster
7.0

Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.

Welcome to Beirais

2013

Ajuste de Contas poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ajuste de Contas

2000

Terra Mãe poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Terra Mãe

1998

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Grande Aposta

1997

Silent Cargo poster
6.4

November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.

Silent Cargo

2022

No artwork available
7.5

Living in Your Car is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that debuted on May 7, 2010 on HBO Canada. The series stars John Ralston as Steve Unger, a former high-flying corporate executive struggling to rebuild his life after being indicted on fraud, obstruction and racketeering charges. Legally forbidden to hold any job dealing with other people's money, he finds himself ordered to teach a business ethics class — and is forced to live in his car when his wife won't let him back into their home. The series was created and principally written by George F. Walker, Dani Romain, and Joseph Kay.

Living in Your Car

2010

Maternidade poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maternidade

2011

Festival da Canção poster
NR

Festival da Canção or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival, produced and broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal to choose the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Festival da Canção

1964

Broken Spies poster
4.2

The world is at war. While Portugal seems like an oasis by the Atlantic, its glamorous casinos and secret hideouts become the stage for a network of daring women spies, trading information that could turn the tide of the conflict.

Broken Spies

2025

Solteira e Boa Rapariga poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solteira e Boa Rapariga

2019

Lume poster
4.3

In the quaint Galician village of Seara, journalist Lucía returns to probe a forest fire eerily tied to her family's dark past.

Lume

2025

Lost in Fuseta - Ein Krimi aus Portugal poster
8.5

The series tells the story of Leander Lost, an extraordinary detective who is autistic. Lost is transferred to the small fishing village of Fuseta. He must try to fit in with his new team somehow.

Lost in Fuseta - Ein Krimi aus Portugal

2022

Ninguém Como Tu poster
NR

Luíza Albuquerque sees her life collapse after her daughter runs away from the altar. Shortly after, in an increasingly stifling relationship, she receives a fatal sentence: she has only one year to live, and no amount of money in the world, which she has accumulated – not always in the best way – will be able to save her. Faced with this revelation, she decides to be happy in the short time she has left, even if it means ruining the lives of her sisters and her own daughter.

Ninguém Como Tu

2025

As Lições do Tonecas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

As Lições do Tonecas

1996

Shadow - A Mother Knows poster
NR

Years after the disappearance of a child, a mother continues to try to find her son after an abduction that authorities cannot solve. As she moves in a world that wants to force her to forget the past and grieve for a child she believes is still alive. Based on a true story

Shadow - A Mother Knows

2022

Santiago poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Santiago

2022

Amadeo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amadeo

2026

Se Eu Quiser, Choro poster
NR

Odete is a young witch who loves being a witch. She lives with her mother, Teté, and her sister, Luci. When a love potion goes wrong and turns Luci into a frog, Odete embarks on a series of adventures to undo the spell. Along the way, she will have to deal with a headless body, family secrets, and the mysterious arrival of David, a captivating boy who seems to know more than he lets on.

Se Eu Quiser, Choro

2026